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| Date: | 04 06 1938 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Model TD-65 Diesel TracTracTor [crawler tractor] owned by the Albert Brothers, and working on the Sky Line Drive. This tractor is ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A group of men are working with an International crawler tractor (TracTracTor) with a crane. |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards a group of construction workers posed near the east portal of the railroad tunnel near Tunnel City. |
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| Description: | A work crew raising the bents of a barn framing system using pike poles. A valley is in the background beyond the hill where the barn is being constructed. |
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| Description: | Dahl took a series of pictures of barn raisings, one of many community activities he photographed. Here the crew is installing a top plate on the side wall... |
| Date: | 05 06 1911 |
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| Description: | Workmen posing while erecting the first smokestack at the power plant construction site on the Wisconsin River. Two men have scaled the stack. |
| Date: | 06 19 1911 |
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| Description: | Looking west over the Wisconsin River at the unfinished narrow gauge railroad trestle built for construction of the dam. Two pile drivers are seen in the a... |
| Date: | 10 10 1913 |
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| Description: | Workers posing with roof trusses on the power house, 85 feet above the water level at the Prairie du Sac Dam. Note the brickwork in progress. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of workers posing on the east bank of the Wisconsin River at the power dam construction site. One man is strumming his shovel like... |
| Date: | 05 17 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of workers using shovels to level fresh concrete at the base of the chutes from the high trestle. The steam powered pile driver is at work in... |
| Date: | 07 16 1912 |
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| Description: | Workers posing inside the coffer dam. The narrow gauge railroad is behind them. One of the pile drivers is in the background. A bare area on the bluff in t... |
| Date: | 09 30 1912 |
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| Description: | Forms have been removed from the first concrete poured for the power house in the northeast corner of the coffer dam. Men are pouring concrete from rail ca... |
| Date: | 07 02 1913 |
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| Description: | Workers pause while installing a maze of conduit for the switchboard in the power house. The construction camp is to the left. |
| Date: | 05 28 1911 |
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| Description: | Men posing on a barge carrying a steam powered pile driver at work on the coffer dam for the construction of the powerhouse. Caption reads: "Driving Sheet ... |
| Date: | 10 04 1946 |
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| Description: | Men work with an International TracTracTor (crawler tractor) in construction of the Merriman Dam. The tractor was owned by S.A. Healy Co., White Plains, Ne... |
| Date: | 12 18 1950 |
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| Description: | Two men bring up a plank for a brace during construction of the Blackhawk Ski Club ski jump in preparation for the second annual jumping meet at Tomahawk R... |
| Date: | 12 18 1950 |
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| Description: | A man prepares to hoist a plank into place during construction of the Blackhawk Ski Club ski jump in anticipation for the second annual jumping meet at Tom... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a crane lifting machinery to workers at the top of the bridge during construction. Words on the crane reads, "Stevens Brothers and S... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | The entrance to the bridge during construction. A worker works on the side of the bridge on the right. Other workers in the middle of the bridge lay boards... |
| Date: | 08 29 1930 |
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| Description: | Two cranes and a car at the bridge construction site. Several workers work on carving out the road at the edge of the river. |
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